Where is Paradise?
Climate Crisis As Initiation? | August's Featured Poet | Paradise Lost, The Sequel | Farming While Black
Dear Reader,
Is Paradise located outside or inside you? Maybe there is a special place you have been that feels like Paradise: your ancestral home, or an ancient forest. Or maybe you have touched Paradise in silence, or a lover's caress.
Imagine a hundred people whose minds are full…
‘Dancing Your Animal’
Our spiritual relationship with other-than-human animals is timeless and complex.
Dear Reader,
I recently re-read Michael Harner’s classic, Way of the Shaman. Michael and Sandra Harner were pioneering legends of shamanism research. Michael first traveled to the Amazon rainforest in 1956 to study Shuar (Jivaro) and Shipibo-Conibo culture, and was one of the first outsiders to report…
Summer Gallery of Poets
Navigation
In the 1960s, biologist Stephen Emlen
demonstrated that indigo buntings use celestial navigation to migrate at night. He did this by confining the birds in a planetarium and projecting falsely-oriented constellations on the ceiling. The birds consistently oriented themselves to the position of the mis-projected North Star.
Caged in the observatory under a fake night sky,
a dozen…
Summer Poetry | Call for Essays and Other Works | New Spirit, Wise Action
Dear Reader,
We are all becoming more aware that the choices we make have consequences for life on Earth. The ways we travel, the foods we buy, how we cool our homes, all make a difference. On the other hand, some environmental activists work for decades and feel they make little impact.
We also hear about meditation and mindfulness being co-opted as a means of 'spiritual bypass' - the idea…
Extinction Resilience!
Editorial | Resonance and Relationship
In Kosmos Quarterly, Summer Edition
We are losing treasure – species, ecosystems, and the essential fluids of our planet. If we think of these as separate elements – a species of turtle here, a rainforest there – then we are missing the real implications.
Plants, animals, and minerals are interdependent members of their eco-communities and the family…
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ALL MY RELATIONS | Plants, Animals, and Minerals
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